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Date Posted: 09:47:16 03/23/02 Sat
Author: jim straight
Subject: Re: What is your personal favorite detector ??
In reply to: Steve Herschbach 's message, "Re: What is your personal favorite detector ??" on 21:29:26 03/21/02 Thu

Steve

Use the optional extension cord for your 2200d. There is one for both the mono and DD so you need two. Then pig-string the control box across your chest and use the smaller battery in the light-weight pack. You can borrow the upper shaft from a 17000 or 18000. Now you can swing all day.

My V/sat was modified by Bill Lahr and has an expanded ground balance, different SAT speed, and two independent toggle switch coarse ground balance knobs. Dean Chapman added the frequency shift. To me it is as good as the GM-3.
Also, if anyone wants a smaller coil for it there are several who are modifying the Fisher GB-2 6-inch for this and Dean Chapman has home brewed a 6-inch DD for it using the skidplate from a GB 6-inch coil.

Older machines such as the Garrett Coinhunter Groundhog, Tesoro Mayan, Compass 240, Compass Challenger 80, White's 5000/series-2 with the six-shooter coil, the original Tesoro Lobo with the 7-inch coil; just to mention a few, are still good for nuggethunting in some areas and a good used machine is not that expensive and if it happens to also have an additional full-range coin discrimination mode it can also be a coinshooter. My late brother Tom prefered a Gold Mountain "BOSS" rather than an original Gold Bug and had a handfull of nice pyramid-shaped nuggets which he found on the lower end of the Hauchuca(sp) range back about 1980.

Knowing where to go; hunting old tailings piles, some mine dumps, overlooked eluvial epithermal-type gold prospects associated with Tertiary volcanics and hillside residual and eluvial placers are the challenge for us all. Pushing a small coil under and between rocks and brush is now the way to go. It is still out there, research is the "key." Whatever machine you have, use it. Get out and swing that coil.




For those of you who have a Fisher 660 Motherlode a autotune or SAT can be added which really brings life back into the old girl if you use the 3.5 coil under the bushes.

For your 17000 or 18000 there is an accessory 6-inch circular DD coil which seems to be great with my 17000 in 32kHz.

For your old Gold Bug the 6-inch coil really adds life. Ditto the GB-2 with this coil.

The old Garrett Gold Stinger still has its uses. Full range coin disc and also a good mine dump air-test machine.

Don't overlook your old Compass Gold Scanner Pro; with the circular DD or the 6-inch concentric ultralight it is still a contender. Mine was extensively altered by Steve Goss many years ago. I had the tactile switch replaced by a toggle and added small hole to the side of the case to adjust the internal audio pot in the autotune mode. Also had the ground linear groundbalance split for expanded range.

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